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On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 18:04 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote: in answer to my > NB the lists of printers supported in Ubuntu and Suse are > > impressive); > > are they not for all distros? The support is mostly from CUPS I think, > which is standard...good news :D I appreciate that - what I should have said is that people will be able to check from a live distro or one of our installs if their printer is listed - or if anyone asks me, I can check the list. Incidentally, after our discussion about printers, I went after one recommended in linuxprinting.org but it was no longer available. So, instead of the Epson Stylus C8x I got a D88 which worked with CUPS from the box. Ink was a different matter but an exchange in the shop worked wonders. > A hand out like this would be good > though, I guess it would quickly turn into an "Introduction to Linux", > which would be great to put on the web as I'm sure thousands of people > would find a piece like this very useful. I'd be happy to help with > this. OK, we can aim for this as I want people to have the security of a clear and concise resource to get them going: all stages from thinking about it to solving problems after installing. > if you're taking suggestions, Fedora and OpenSuse are both > just as easy to use as Ubuntu; especially as both these examples have > a lot more gui system configs...There's also all the stuff like > PCLinuxOS, SimplyMepis etc but I have no experience with these. I wanted to keep it simple. Whilst showing a few distros might be good, giving a narrow choice would make the first session easy and more reliable, hence my preference for Ubuntu 7.04 Live DVD. I personally prefer to offer what I have experience of, and will try Fedora soon and the latest OpenSuse. I have found Knoppix Live CD excellent. > This could all be fitted onto the disc I expect > with a few simple steps; I have experience with adding extras to live > cds and could help here too. Great. A complete package would be good. All help will be good. I hope to complete handouts/posters by beginning September, possibly before, depending on the amount of discussion. We'll start with what we have and develop it in the light of experience: each person leading a new event could use and develop what was there and lead with their choice of ideal distro for newcomers. We can compare notes on the number and type of followup questions/requests/problems. Web pages would also be good, as you suggested, and easily updated and accessible. It is of course, always possible this has already been done, but no-one has said so yet. james kilty http://www.kilty.demon.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html